About fifteen years ago, I wrote1
what has become a popular blog about knowledge hoarding. Almost all of what I wrote then is still
true today. A combination of smart machinery and a clever report managed to
reduce this person's degrees of freedom, but she still didn't change her
ways dramatically.
About a month ago, I was told that she would soon be retiring and that there
would be a new employee replacing her. I thought it very important to give
the new employee personal training as she wouldn't get much from Mrs X - and
what she would get would be next to useless. So I prepared to travel to
Karmiel, but each time I tried, there would be something that prevented me.
First it was the
war with Iran2, then it was my
brother-in-law's funeral3 and mourning period. Finally last week I travelled north and
spent several hours with the new employee.
There was held a farewell party on Monday for the retiring employee in Karmiel (I
didn't go) and now everybody is informed that Mrs X has retired and has been
replaced by Mrs Y. Ding dong, the witch is dead!! Finally we have the chance
of having a purchasing department run as intelligently as possible (there
are inherent problems with ordering different types of wood planks).
Internal links
[1] 169
[2] 1950
[3] 1957
This day in blog history:
| Title | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | Life is stranger than art | ||
| 98 | 1972 - the year I've been leading up to | Israel, Habonim, Kibbutz, Richard Thompson, 1972 | |
| 184 | Better late than never - II | Richard Thompson, Fleetwood Mac, Albion Band | |
| 269 | The in-basket 4 | Programming, Delphi, In-basket, Resource files | |
| 387 | Human Resources Management results | MBA, HRM | |
| 880 | Vinyl log 21 - 25 July | Richard Thompson, Vinyl log | |
| 1056 | Guitar corner | Guitars | |
| 1246 | Running a procedure from a screen trigger | Priority tips |
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